Shawnee man surrenders in ’77 killing

 
BY SHEILA STOGSDILL AND ANN KELLEY
Published: March 17, 2009

SHAWNEE — A man who thought he was going to die confessed last week to a decades-old slaying.

James Brewer , 58, didn’t die. Instead, he found himself Monday in a Tennessee courtroom facing a murder charge. Authorities say he killed a man he thought was involved with his wife in 1977.

Brewer, a Shawnee resident, was in an Oklahoma City hospital early last week when his wife called the Shawnee P...


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